Close a one windowHandler at the Webview

Question

I am writing scripts to automate a hybrid application. On my app I have two windowHandles.

For example, after performing some actions when I execute below code I get "2" windows as the windowHandles value.

ReadOnlyCollection<string> windowHandles = InitialiseAppium.driver.WindowHandles;

So at the script I need to close the windowHandles[1] window and navigate back to 0th window.

I tried doing this with:

driver.close();
driver.Navigate().Back();

But no luck yet:

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This is what i currently have:

ReadOnlyCollection<string> windowHandles = InitialiseAppium.driver.WindowHandles;

InitialiseAppium.driver.SwitchTo().Window(windowHandles[0]);
InitialiseAppium.driver.Close();

Not working.

Answer 1

I would suggest you follow the below approach:

• Before performing the action you mentioned, store the default(main) window handle in a string variable, say CurrentHandle using driver.getWindowHandles()
• After the action, use the code you mentioned to get all windows in ReadOnlyCollection windowHandles
• Iterate windowHandles and check if CurrentHandle is not equal to windowHandles loop instance
• If loop instance is not equal to CurrentHandle, then driver.switchTo().window(windowHandles[i]) and then do driver.close()
• After the loop, use driver.switchTo().window(CurrentHandle)

Answer 2

To close a new window, you first new to set the context on this new window:

element.Click();  // opens a new window

// store the handle of the main window
String winMain = driver.WindowHandle;

// set the context on the second window and close it
foreach (String winX in driver.WindowHandles) {
  if (!winX.Equals(winMain)) {
    driver.SwitchTo().Window(winX);
    driver.Close();
  }
}

// set the context back to the main window
driver.SwitchTo().Window(winMain);

Note that WindowHandles returns a collection of handles where the first handle is not guarantied to be the first window. So you should not try to get an handle by index.

Answer 3

You can try this to close a single window,

driver.switchTo().window(windowHandles[1]).close();

In case of loop, you can try something like this,

for x in range(1, 6):
    driver.switchTo().window(window_handles[x]).close();